Insurance Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking asset-accumulation behavior among disability-insurance... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

relative infancy, he explained. "By the end of the 1990s, that had all changed. By the early 1990s the legislation that separated commercial and investment banking had been torn down, and banks and investment banks and insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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Marcela Sapone

the same idea as taking a concept and creating something with as few resources as possible.” Alfred is a technology-based, on-demand personal assistant service company that offers busy young professionals and even busier young... View Details

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

School Case 316-093 Allianz Turkey: Focus on the Customer (A) At the age of 39, Solmaz Altın took over the helm at Allianz Turkey. Solmaz quickly realized that, although the insurance market was thinly penetrated in Turkey, the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2005
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Better Care at Lower Cost

company called MinuteClinic, with locations in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Baltimore, operates a number of facilities where a nurse-practitioner or physician’s assistant provides an array of basic medical services, from diagnosing and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

leaders engaging on the idea of a national-level response to climate change for years, but remarked that interest has notably increased among its members. “We’re now seeing [interest from] folks from the insurance sector, from banks, from... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2010
News

Notes from the Trenches

just participating,” he said. All agreed that starting a company is a significant risk and that an HBS degree is a solid insurance policy in case things don’t work out — but you can’t expect success by... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Oct 2002
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Andrew H. Tisch

its five subsidiaries — the Bulova Watch Company, insurer CNA Financial, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Loews Hotels, and the Lorillard Tobacco Company — and from other investments. Since 1997, when the founders... View Details

22 Mar 2016
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Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

He began as president and chief operating officer in 1989 and led the company as CEO from 1991 until 2001, serving as chairman of the board from 1996–2002. He returned to HBS as a member of the faculty in 2004. “My whole goal in life is... View Details

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-052.pdf Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe By: Ketels, Christian, and Sergiy Protsiv Abstract—This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Olivia Zhao

incentives for companies to make drugs, but then you get to the point where someone has to pay for them. The question is, how do insurers and payers decide what to pay for drugs, and how does that affect... View Details

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Ann Lucena

with an interest in psychology, I thought it was a great way to educate an entire nation." Driven by a desire to know "how a world-changing company does what it does," Ann took her second internship at Google, where she... View Details

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107055 Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B) Harvard Business School Case 107-066 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the strategic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

can induce ethical behavior in their employees. For example, another series of experiments showed that moving the signature line from the end to the beginning of a self-reported form leads to an increase in truthfulness in the answers. A field experiment at an auto... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

acute, to the point where your physician only gets paid by an insurance company if you go see them in an office, and the hospital is only paid if you're admitted," Williams explains. "Hospitals have told us... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Aaron Chadbourne

course in the Elective Curriculum. This summer, Aaron will do back-to-back internships with Bain & Company and UNUM, an insurance company in long-term disability and... View Details

01 Jun 2025
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Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)

SUPERFAN When Sonnenberg attends a game, she often doesn’t watch the court or field. “I’m always intrigued by stuff that the public doesn’t necessarily think about—like the width of concourses and the mix of seating types,” she says. (Photo: Benjamin Norman) “In... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

06 Oct 2022
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On the Road to Recovery

company while still at HBS and had recently sold his investments, was intrigued by the opportunity. Travel nursing had gotten its start in the 1980s, and its biggest player had recently gone public, revealing a wealth of data about the... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late February, the company announced that it would convert as much as $50 billion... View Details